| Summary: | "Go to page" should allow relative jumps | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Tristan Miller <psychonaut> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aacid, tech |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Tristan Miller
2010-03-05 15:21:55 UTC
Do you know of any software that implements this kind of feature for go to? No answer for years. Sorry; I must have overlooked the question in Comment #1. I'll answer now: Yes, this is a standard feature of pagers (i.e., text document viewers). Both more and less, for example, bind keys to page forward and backward through the document, and also let users type the exact number of pages to skip back or ahead. Many text editors, such as Emacs and vi, also have this feature. There are also graphical document viewers which support relative jumps of more than one page forward and backwards, though not all of them allow the magnitude of the jump to be adjusted. Both Evince and gv, for example, provide key bindings or UI buttons for skipping forward and backward multiple pages at a time. Hi! Came here to request this feature. I'm looking at a 2191 page scanned (that is, I can't search it) pdf whose TOC lists chapters and pages. E.g. "Integrated Control Unit" is listed as "23-156". It DOESN'T say that it's on page 1628. It could be as simple as evaluating "+169", or accepting +/- after the page number, e.g. "1473+169". Either/both of those seem a trivial fix (from the outside). As for "other software", Okular could be a trend-setter. Binary searches with a calculator are so 20th century :-) Thanks Doug |